Glove-tree.



A. J. HOFFMAN.

GLOVE TR EE.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. l6. 1914.

Patented May 30,1916.

ADON J. HOFFMAN, OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK.

GLOVE-TREE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 30, 1916.

Application filed October 16, 1914. Serial No. 866,908.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ADoN J. HOFFMAN, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga in the State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Glove- Trees, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to certain improvements in glove-trees of the class set forth in the patent to Gr. J. Schneider No. 772,063, issued Oct. 11, 1904: in which an upright arm carrying the hand and digitals is journaled at its lower end on a suitable base so that the form may be turned to cause either side to face the operator for receiving a glove for either hand.

In the use of this device for dry cleaning and re-shaping gloves, I find it necessary to provide some 'means for supporting the thumbs of the glove for either hand in approximately their natural positions when worn so that all portions thereof may be inspected, cleaned and repaired by the operator without changing position.

My object, therefore, is to hinge a thumbpiece to one edge of the hand portion of an upright revolving glove-tree in such manner that it may be brought forward to the same side facing the operator when the tree is reversed by turning it a half revolution upon the base, and at the same time to allow said thumb-piece to be adjusted angularly within certain limits relatively to the longitudinal edge of the tree to which it is hinged.

Other objects and uses will be brought out in the following description.

Inthe drawings Figure 1 is an elevation, partly broken away, of a glove-tree embodying my improvement. Fig. 2 is an enlarged transverse sectional view taken on line 2-2, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail sectional view of portions of the hand and thumb of the tree, showing particularly the hinge connection.

This glove tree is preferably mounted in an upright position upon a suitable supporting base -1, and comprises an arm portion 2 and a hand portion 3 having digitals 4.-, and a thumb piece -5 hinged to one edge of the hand portion -3, all of which parts are preferably hollow and made of metal or other heat resisting material for the reception of anv suitable heat agent, not necessary to herein illustrate or describe, as the heating means forms no part of my present invention.

The arm and hand portions 2 and 3- are comparatively broad and flat to conform approximately to the shape of a hand so that its opposite sides are substantially parallel, and is preferably composed of similar half sections meeting in a plane midway between the sides and secured to gether by suitable fastening means as screws 6- to form an intervening heating chamber -7--.

The thumb piece -5 is made to conform approximately to the shape of a human thumb and is hinged by a link 8 to the longitudinal center of one edge of the hand portion 3 so as to swing laterally to opposite sides of said longitudinal center, and also vertically or longitudinally. For this purpose, the link 8 isprovided with eyes -9 and 10- on opposite ends thereof, one of the eyes as -9- being pivoted by one. of the screws 6 to the ad jacent edge of the hand portion -3, while the other eye 10 is pivoted to a pintle 1.1 on the adjacent side of the thumb piece -5', said pintle being formed by cutting apertures at opposite sides thereof to allow the passage of the eye 10 therethrough.

The eye 9 is preferably held between the meeting faces of the adjacent edge of the hand portion 3, said meeting faces being recessed at -12 to allow vertical movement of the hinge connection or link 8-, while the eye -10 is disposed at right angles to the eye -9 for engaging the vertical pintle 11 to allow the thumb piece -5 to swing laterally or horizontally to opposite sides of the medial plane of the hand portion 3.

The thumb piece 5- is provided with a pendent extension 5 having its inner face adjacent the edge of the hand portion 3 disposed at an angle with the upper portion of the thumb piece to allow the latter to swing outwardly a limited distance away from the digitals, the inclined edge of the lower extension -5 co-acting with the adjacent edge of the hand portion -3- to limit this outward swinging movement about the axis of the pivot 9-, thus permitting the thumb of the glove to be easily slipped over and upon the thumb piece of the tree, and at the same time affording ample space all around the thumb for ina brought into proper position at v I same side of the hand'piece facing the opermovement of the thumb piece spection, cleansing and repairs, the extension 5 abutting against the adjacent edge of the hand portion 3-, serving to support the thumb piece firmly a'gainst undue downward movement while the glove is being applied thereto, as well as to the; digitals of the hand portion.

The object of the laterally swinging. to opposite sides of the medial plane ofsthe hand portion is to permit said thumb piece to be one and the ator for the reception of either aright-hand or left-hand glove, by simply reversing the a tree, or rather rotating it a half revolution upon its supporting base l; for example: Assuming that the thumb piece 5.

is adjusted to the position shown by full lines, Fig. 2, for receiving aright-hand glove and it is desired to use the same device for receiving a left-hand glove, it is simply necessary to rotatethetree a half revolution, thus bringing the thumb piece iconic ojf this patent m av be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Washington, D. 0.

at the opposite side, whereupon said thumb piece may be rocked upon its pintle 11 to the front of the tree where the operator is located. I

What I claim is: s

A glove-tree comprising a substantially flat hand portion terminating at one end in digitals, and a thumb portion hinged to one edge of the hand portion to swing to opposite sides of the medial plane thereof, and having an independent rocking movement toward and from the hand portion, said thumb portion having an extension below the hinge cooperating with the adjacent edge of the hand portion to limit its swinging movement away from said hand portion.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 8th day of October 1914.

ADON J. HOFFMAN.

Witnesses:

H. E. CHAsE, ALICE M. CANNON.

"Commissioner 0t Patents. 

